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· Footballer Billy Gilmour will miss Scotland's final Euro 2020 Group D match against Croatia on Tuesday after testing positive for COVID-19, the Scottish Football Association said. Gilmour, 20, was man of the match in the draw with England, which was his first start for Scotland. He will now self-isolate for 10 days.

· Only 10,000 domestic spectators will be able to watch the Olympic Games from each venue, according to its organizers. The decision comes days after experts warned the live events could cause a spike in cases.

· New rules imposed on Olympic athletes from countries hit hard by the pandemic are "unfair," according to India's Olympic body. Under the new regulations, athletes from 11 countries, including the UK, Pakistan and India, will have to take daily tests for a week before leaving for Tokyo and must stay away from other teams for three days after they arrive. But the president of the Indian Olympic Association said this would force the athletes to lose three days of training before their events.

· Russia reported 17,378 new cases, bringing its overall tally to 5,334,204. The country is currently experiencing a surge of new cases, which its government has blamed on a rise in vaccine hesitancy.

· France lifted its curfew 10 days early, in time for the country's national music festival, Fete de la musique. The festival starts today and will still be subject to some restrictions.

· In the UK, people who are fully vaccinated may not have to quarantine after coming into contact with the virus, according to Health Secretary  Matt Hancock.

· Hancock also told the BBC the UK was starting to work on plans to administer a booster jab. But the government is currently waiting to see which vaccine combinations are the most effective.

· The Ugandan Olympic athlete who tested positive after landing in Japan is now staying in a government-designated facility. The athletes were fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca's jab and had tested negative 72 hours before traveling.

· More than 80 percent of the officials and athletes staying at the Olympic village will be vaccinated by the time the games begin, according to the president of the International Olympic Committee.

Toni Waterman in Brussels 

A weeks-long manhunt for a fugitive soldier who threatened to assassinate one of Belgium's top virologists has come to an end. 

The body of Jurgen Conings was discovered in woodland near the Dutch border, five weeks after he disappeared with a hoard of weapons stolen from a military barracks. 

Before running, he left a message threatening to kill Marc Van Ranst, one of the most public figures in Belgium's COVID-19 fight. Van Ranst and his family have been in a safe house ever since. 

Upon hearing the news, Van Ranst tweeted that his thoughts were with Conings' relatives and children: "For them, this is very sad news because they lost a father, a relative or friend."

Police said the cause of death appears to be suicide but an autopsy is being performed. 

Penelope Liersch in Budapest 

Czechia is reopening its borders to EU and Serbian citizens on Monday, allowing travel to resume after months of restrictions. Those arriving in the country have to show proof of vaccination or immunity after recovering from an infection in the past six months, or a negative test result.

Anyone who can prove they have had their first jab at least 22 days earlier is considered vaccinated for entry. 

As of the weekend, 2.5 million people have been fully vaccinated in Czechia. 

At least 4.7 million have received their first dose of vaccine, representing 44 percent of the population. 

Experts are attributing the steady drop in cases to the number of people who've been vaccinated. 

Andrew Wilson in UK 

The combination of testing and vaccinations is making travel safer, ministers are being told, as fewer than one in 200 travelers from "amber list" countries are testing positive on their return.

NHS Test and Trace figures show no "variants of concern" were detected from any passenger returning from one of the 167 countries.

Plans are in place to establish a second booster vaccination campaign for the fall. The government says details will be published in due course.

In recognition of a new post-pandemic office culture, the government has introduced a new season ticket for rail travel aimed at those commuting just two or three days a week.

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